I trust you will keep blogging like this.

The word of course carries it’s own nuances and the ones we wrap around it. As Scott remarked, the DML challenge is not about the kind of interpersonal trust you write about, but about trust of organizations and managers of information (certainly important).

What plays out here in the description of your bridging over the barriers to connect with Helen reminds me more if the risks and vulnerabilities we test in forming adolescent relationships. Yes we seek kinship but it’s also deep personal connections; it seems (horrible generalization) the relations we form later in life are more about opportunity, leverage, convenience. We risk little as we get so more aware of maybe our own fears.

So to me the Internet provides a way to explore friendships, collegiality that seem less of an opportunity in our Busy Backson lives (that’s a Winnie the Pooh reference).

I understand where Jonathan suggests the loss of “digital intimacy” but we only lose it when we stop doing it. That is not my experience. And why do we stop? Well I could roll out more half thought out ungrounded theories.

No risk, no intimacy, venture/gain relationship.

We lose trust when we risk and are let down; we gain trust when it exceeds our fears and expectations.

Trust me 😉